Upcoming Events
The Crown Center for Jewish Studies sponsors frequent lectures and symposia. Among the notable upcoming events are:
2009 Philip M. & Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization
featured speaker
Dr. Tova Hartman, Bar Ilan University
date TBD
Dr. Tova Hartman teaches at Bar Ilan University in the School of Education and the Program in Gender Studies. Her first, book, Appropriately Subversive: Modern Mothers in Traditional Religions (Harvard University Press, 2002), examines how feminists in traditional religions balance and blend their roles as mothers and believers. Using ethnographic methods, Hartman studies both American Catholic and Israeli Jewish women in this ground-breaking book. Her second book, Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation (Brandeis University Press, 2007), explores the relationships between contemporary feminist thought and Jewish tradition. Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg describes it as “an intellectual/analytical feast and a spiritual delight.”
Hartman holds a Masters in Jewish Philosophy from Hebrew University; a Masters in Counseling Psychology from Boston College; and a doctorate in Psychology from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, where she wrote her dissertation with Carol Gilligan.
Hartman has worked as a clinician at the Jerusalem Women's Counseling Center. She is one of the founders of Shira Hadasha, an orthodox feminist synagogue in Jerusalem.
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For descriptions of the Center's endowed lectureship series, symposia and conferences, and other academic events, along with listings of the principal scholars who have participated in them, please see the corresponding links on the left.
